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Comment
. 2021 Jul 6;118(27):e2106088118.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2106088118.

Does exhaled aerosol increase with COVID-19 infection correlate with body mass index-years?

Jürgen Stohner  1   2
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Does exhaled aerosol increase with COVID-19 infection correlate with body mass index-years?

Jürgen Stohner. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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The author declares no competing interest.

Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Exhaled particle counts per liter against BMI-years (black dots, low spreader; red dots, superspreader). Horizontal lines are the mean value (full line) for two superspreader cohorts (red and blue) and ±1 SD (dashed lines).
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
Exhaled particle counts per liter against BMI-years. The dotted lines are from a linear regression (see text).
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  • Exhaled aerosol increases with COVID-19 infection, age, and obesity.
    Edwards DA, Ausiello D, Salzman J, Devlin T, Langer R, Beddingfield BJ, Fears AC, Doyle-Meyers LA, Redmann RK, Killeen SZ, Maness NJ, Roy CJ. Edwards DA, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Feb 23;118(8):e2021830118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2021830118. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021. PMID: 33563754 Free PMC article.

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